Click the image above to view the full photogallery. 1) Crown Heights: Brownstoner has word that a new café called Glass Shop is opening on Classon Ave: “Good news for Crown Heights (and those in Prospect Heights who don't mind walking a couple of blocks): A new cafe called Glass Shop i...

This guy Brian Adler interviews Matisyahu. At first i thought, wow Matisyahu actually looks pretty good, something i haven't said in a while. But then as the interview goes on, I'm just wondering to myself, why he says what he says? There are so many questions here that if i had the chance i would a...

Brooklyn Hasidic Street Patrols Profiled Jewish street patrols curb crime – and generate controversy Hasidic groups in New York patrol religious neighborhoods in marked cars, but they occasionally clash with outside groups and even among themselves. By Jordan Heller | Christian Science Monitor | F...

This is a clip from a movie about the 1991 Crown Heights riots, released in 2004. "Piece" of what?...

Congratulations America. We just performed our time-honored ritual of inaugurating a new President. One of the functions of ritual is to connect us with our past. When a Jew puts on tefilin or eats Matza on Pesah, he connects with the Vilna Gaon, the Rambam and Rabbi Akiva, who did the same things. ...

In HaYom Yom of Chof Beis Teves the Rebbe writes:“......... It is an absolute duty for every person to spend a half hour every day thinking about the Torah-education of children, and to do everything in his power - and beyond his power - to inspire children to follow the path along which they are b...

NEW YORK, NY [CBS] -- With a growing number of individual investors and organizations surfacing as victims in the Bernard Madoff ponzi scheme, one disturbing aspect is that the scandal may be fanning the flames of stereotypes about Jews. In the heavily Jewish area of Crown Heights, if you say Bernie...

Didja hear the one about the cop who walked into a doughnut shop and asked for a bagel and a shmear? You will soon. The NYPD is adding 10 Orthodox Jews, including one woman, to their ranks. That's the largest Orthodox contingent ever in the department's latest cadet class. When Ari Husarsky told his...

How many times will we be fooled into delight at that new bodega, that cute coffee place, that reopened restaurant so close to the apartment, only to see the craft services trucks and klieg lights roll in to film a movie in what turns out to be just a set? The motion picture mountebanks struck Crown...

NEW YORK -- In the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn on Friday, Lubavitch Jews reacted with shock and grief to news that the bodies of Rabbi Gavriel N. Holtzberg, 29, and his Israeli wife, Rivka, 28, had been found inside the blasted shell of the outreach center they ran in Mumbai....